Jim Winstead
Director Of Engineering at Imperial Dog, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Winstead is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader based in Los Angeles with over two decades of technical experience and more than a decade in engineering roles. He blends deep backend expertise—MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, and infrastructure—with hands-on product and retail sensibilities from founding and running a successful downtown art supply business. Jim has led open source-focused work at MySQL/Oracle (including Connector/ODBC) and built and contributed to projects like ArchiveBox and a PHP-based POS/e-commerce system informed by real-world retail operations. As Director of Engineering at Athlete To Athlete and a long-running freelance engineer, he pairs strategic leadership with active coding and release-engineering know-how. Unexpectedly, his background crosses both software product scaling and brick-and-mortar small business operations, giving him rare insight into customer-facing integrations and vendor workflows. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College and remains connected to the PHP community and open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (98)
python10
interpreter10
pocket10
browser-history10
webextension10
rss10
chromium10
point-of-sale10
pos10
headless-browser10
firefox10
warc10
js10
wayback-machine10
mysql10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jimwins/titi
May 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 releases, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
jimwins/cups-ipp
Dec 2018 - Sep 2023
CUPS Implementation of IPP - PHP Client API
Contributions:12 pushes in 4 years 9 months
api-clientapiphp-clientphpapi-client-php
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